UTS upgrades webmail system

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has become the latest in a long line of Australian universities to announce plans to move to Live@edu, after announcing its webmail email system will be upgraded to provide improved online communications to its some 30,000 students.

The upgrade will not affect current email addresses' attached to the University, and will provide an increase in storage capacity to 10GB per student.

In an email to UTS students, it was revealed that other features of the upgrade include the option of having an email account available for life, as well as the capacity to send attachments as large as 20MB.

UTS’ director of information technology, Chris Cahill, said the move will result in UTS’ webmail server no longer being run in house.

“The current student webmail service is run in house by UTS and was developed on the Sun Java Enterprise System [JES] platform,” he said in an email. “The upgraded email service will be Microsoft’s Live@edu offering.”

The planned upgrades will take place next month with the initial upgrades commencing at the start of December and concluding on Christmas Eve.

The interface is set to have a new look and feel as well as the extra option for students to share their calendars with other students.

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